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Project Brief
Exxon Tiger Exhibit
Dallas Zoo, Dallas,
Texas
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Site Plan: Exxon Tiger Exhibit
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The Exxon Tiger Exhibit: Tigers
of Southeast Asia is a 2 acre valley site featuring Indo-chinese and Sumatran
Tiger habitats in a rotation concept. The site offers the zoo outstanding
opportunities to devote focused attention onTiger Conservation and Breeding
of these endangered species.
Our approach was to concentrate
the major viewing from a Thai-themed viewing structure within the heavily
forested "jungle" bowl, spanning the center of the tiger's habitat.
The visitor journey along a meandering trail crossing streams with multiple
views through bamboo groves and blinds. The trail provides chance encounters
and discovery events to understand the behavior and situation of tigers
in the wild. The dramatic peak of the experience places the visitors
within the center of the Tiger Habitat.
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The visitor trail winds up
the bamboo grove valley where views through artificial "timber bamboo"
mixed with live blur the line between the Tiger's landscapeand that safe
passage of the visitor's.
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The centerpiece of the Tiger
Exhibit consists of two viewing buildings; House of Tiger and House of
Man, designed in the Thai pole house style. The complex acts as a bridge
spanning the Valley of the Tiger placing the visitors in the center of
the Tiger's landscape.
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Sumatran and Indochinese tigers
rotate through the Valley of the Tigers
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The Viewing Blind provides
close-up, nose to nose viewing from the Valley bottom.
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The Entrance on the main viewing
complex is through a traditional Sala which
begins the visitors transport in the Tiger's realm.
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Interior view of House of Tiger
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Logo by Deborah Ross |
Credits
The Exxon Tiger Exhibit was
designed by Ursa International
with asistance from:
Quentin Caron ,Rampantly
Creative
Linda Koebner ,Wildlife
Writers and Resources
Buzz and Barbara Binzen
,Binzen and Binzen Graphic Designers.
Architectural Design services
in Dallas were provided by :
F&S Partners, Architects
Albert Halff Associates,
Civil Engineering
Jaster-Quintanilla &
Associates,Inc., Structural Engineering
Gaynor and Sirmen,
MEP Engineering
Photography by:
Blackink Architectural Photography
Funding was provided by the
City of Dallas
and the Exxon Corporation,
Save the Tiger Foundation
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Project Data
open:June 1999
cost: $4.4 million
area: 3 acres
client: City of Dallas
Rich Buickerood, Zoo Director
Phone: 214-670-6742
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